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Spring thaw

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Posted by Nick Leadley on March 25, 2007 at 9:54 PM
Spring thaw
Spring fever set in this afternoon and this sap was running...or at least hiking a short distance to Small's Falls for an afternoon of shooting. The stream and falls had both opened up greatly in the last few days.

Found this piece of ice (this is is just the tip), wedged up against rocks in a shallow part of the stream.

Hope you like it!


Nikon D2Xs with 105mm macro
1/10 sec. @ f/9
ISO 640
curves, brightness/contrast, and saturation
adjusted in Photoshop

Posted by Jim Salge on March 26, 2007 at 8:01 AM
Nick,

Really like the patterns in this, really evokes good feelings of spring. The color palate helps. To me, the ice is a bit too OOF in the lower right corner, but only a slight nit.

Nice image...glad you got out!!!
Posted by Richard Ennis on March 26, 2007 at 9:09 PM
I like the ring patterns too! I do wish the ice was a bit sharper, but I see you were at 1/10th of a second already. If you stopped down any further, those ring patterns probably would have blurred!
Posted by Robert Near on March 29, 2007 at 9:01 PM
Nick

One Great image, I would not change a thing.

Robert :toast: